1795-1819: Kamehameha I

Unified Hawaiian islands

1819-1824: Kamehameha II (son of Kamehameha I, Kauikeaoouli)

Abolition of kapu system

1825-1854: Kamehameha III (brother of Kamehameha II, Kauikeaouli)

First constitution
Capital moved from Lahaina, Maui to Honolulu

1855-1863: Kamehameha IV (nephew of Kamehameha III, Alexander Liholiho)
1863-1872: Kamehameha V (brother of Kamehameha IV, Lot Kamehameha)

Act to prevent spread of leprosy (1865)
Hawaii provided sugar to North in Civil War

1873-1874: William C. Lunalilo (elected)
1874-1891: David Kalakaua (elected) (known as "Merry Monarch")

U.S. secured use of Pearl Harbor as coaling station
Coronation Ceremony (1883)

1891-1893: Liliuokalani (sister to Kalakaua Rex) "Hawaii's Last Queen"
1893-1900: Provisional government lead by Sanford B. Dole
1898: Sovereignty of Hawaii transferred to US
1900-1903: S. B. Dole appointed first governor
1959: 50th state